NEW YORK — Isadora Duncan wrote in her autobiography: “I am an enemy to the ballet, which I consider a false and preposterous art, in fact, outside the pale of all art.” What would she have made of ...
The program includes another Duncan work, a delicate and fairytale-like solo titled “Harp Etude” (1917), set to the music of Frédéric Chopin, also staged by Mantell Seidel and performed by DCM dancer ...
Isadora Duncan was the greatest dancer of her era. In terms of her influence, some would say the greatest of any era. So why, 100 years after her heyday, is there still controversy and ...
Isadora Duncan departed New York City in May 1899 on a boat carrying cows to Hull, a seaport in England. America had rejected her, so she left to find fame and fortune in Europe as the mother of ...
A century after World War I reshaped lives and arts alike, a new dance-theater premiere in Woodstock shines a light on an overlooked chapter of American Modernism that unfolded in the Hudson Valley.